Foday Saybana Sankoh

Nationalist appeals helped win over the Sierra Leone Army (SLA) which was also bolstered by battle-hardened fighters from Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and the United Liberation Movement of Liberia (Ulimo-J)...

All have benefited from the huge expansion of the Sierra Leone Army in the early l990s a result of the civil war instigated in l99l by Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front...

And the SLA has fought several battles with Corporal Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front (RUF)...

Back in the thick of things is Corporal Foday Sankoh leader of the Revolutionary United Front...

Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front has been badly damaged with 'spontaneous demobilisations' in the east...

The rebels of Corporal Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front have lost interest in Kabbah's peace overtures and are set to resume fighting when the rainy season ends...

Diplomats doubt that Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front (thought to have under 2 000 soldiers despite its claimed 6 000) can derail the government whether or not the ceasefire holds...

They include: Hambros Bank's Defence Systems Limited which has operated in southern Africa for several years and has worked with the United Nations and other international agencies; Lonrho's Gurkha Security Group which has worked in southern Africa and Sierra Leone where it lost some men last year to Foday Sankoh's rebels...

International Alert has been in close contact with Corporal Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front which wants EO out of Sierra Leone as a precondition for a ceasefire...

By mid- June after a long second round of negotiation the basis of a peace deal with Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front seemed settled...